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Reign Or Shine constantly strives to develop new work and expand our community of artists across disciplines. We utilize primarily two programs: LOVE DRUNK and SEEING DOUBLE. The way we like to celebrate developing new stories and voices is to throw a party for them!

WHAT IT'S ABOUTYou know the story, right? After the sudden death of her king, grieving Queen Gertrude tries to save her country from the brink of war by helping her brother-in-law, the wise and good statesman Claudius, ascend to the throne instead of her temperamental son, Prince Hamlet. When Hamlet becomes unhinged, Gertrude enlists his love Ophelia to help save his sanity. But soon, Ophelia inherits Hamlet's suspicions about his father's death and must determine if the queen can be trusted or is an accomplice to murder. This is a story about women.

WHAT IT'S ABOUTTwo brothers seek refuge from society on eighty acres of property in the woods of northern Wisconsin. They want to go back to nature. They want to live off the land. But nature makes the brothers change who they are—or who they think they are—into who they have to be to survive.

July 4, 1942. Fanny's ride is late. She wants to get on her way so she can report to base in the morning. Michael has one last chance to talk her out of going to the war hes just been sent home from. Your Place Is Here explores a defining moment in two peoples lives while the world beyond them is on the brink of falling apart.

It’s September 1964. Debbie Hoffman has returned home to New York City after volunteering with the Mississippi Summer Project. But she is not the same young idealist who left three months before. As the play moves backwards in time, two important friendships unfold-- with David, Debbie’s childhood playmate, and with Helene, a SNCC field secretary. Freedom explores the rewards and the cost of trying to be on the right side of history.

THE CHERRY ORCHARD PART 1Written by Anton CheckovDirected by Jesse Edward Rosbrow Friday, June 9th: 7:30pmSaturday, June 10th: 5:30pm

Anton Chekhov was a master whose daring work revolutionized theatre. In THE CHERRY ORCHARD, his last full-length play, an impoverished landowning family is unable to face the fact that their estate is about to be auctioned off. Lopakhin, a local merchant, presents numerous options to save it, including cutting down their prized cherry orchard. But the family is stricken with denial. The Cherry Orchard charts the precipitous descent of a wealthy family and in the process creates a bold meditation on social change and bourgeois materialism.Come see this nontraditional and hilarious interpretation helmed by visionary director Jesse Edward Rosbrow.

The League of American Wrestling has operated for seven decades across the country by a committee, or a cabal, of promoters who run their own territories and work together to make the most money for themselves. Now comes Jackson Lincoln, a second generation promotoer in L.A.W. who steals the biggest star, Tyler Boulder, from Sam Geiger, the President of L.A.W.'s midwest territory. Now, the hostile takeover begins. Will Lincoln's vision for the future of sports entertainment destroy the tradition of professional wrestling? Will the upstart king's attempt to claim the throne crash and burn all of the people he's touched? No holds are barred and no bonds are sacred in this epic saga about trust, tradition, and ambition under the bright lights of the greatest sport of 'em all.

Love Drunk Series 10

LOVE DRUNK SERIES 10

Sunday, May 7th 2017

JUMPWritten by Gina FemiaDirected by Michele TravisFeaturing Charles Everett and Jehan O. Young

Live To TellWritten by Thomas OttDirected by Lisa Dascoli Featuring Christine Seisler and Scott Zimmerman

Starcrossed - a dashiell hamlet tale

Hudson Guild Theater

441 W. 26th Street New York, NY 10001

Thursday, March 7th, 2017 - 6:15pm

Saturday, March 11th, 2017 - 8:30pm

Sunday, March 12th, 2017 - 1pm

Shakespeare's worlds collide! In 1950's San Diego. Roz hires Dashiell Hamlet to find her missing beau, Romeo. Rumor has it Romeo's fooling around with Roz's cousin, Jules. Roz wants to find Romeo to give him a piece of her mind but Hamlet digs himself into a war between two households, a reefered out Friar's mad plan, and two bodies.

What if the Manson Girls were more like sorority sisters? Controlled by their Stage Directions and forced to live in a world where value cannot be earned, proven or quantified, will Kitty, Cappy, Gypsy or Snake ever win the love and acceptance they crave? But, you know, also like have the super, bestest most fun time ever?! Goooooo team!!!

sTRINGS, ATTACHED - A READING

Bret’s future self travels back in time and begs him to change just one thing in his life—but Bret can’t remember what that thing is! As his life unravels, every relationship is tested and every certainty questioned as he tries to find a way to not screw everything up!